[Tugindia] Rupee symbol for LaTeX on Mac OS X

Shrisha Rao shrao at nyx.net
Tue Jan 4 04:33:59 CET 2011


El ene 4, 2011, a las 8:15 a.m., Kannan Moudgalya escribió:

> Shrisha Rao wrote:
>> I am using the symbol on Mac OS X with XeLaTeX (not plain LaTeX), using fontspec and the following lines in the preamble (with the font itself placed in /Library/Fonts):
>> 
>> \newfontface\Rupee{Indian Rupee} % Raju Das's Indian Rupee font
>> \newcommand{\Rs}{{\Rupee \symbol{"20A8}}}
>> 
>> Then in the main body (after \begin{document}), one can simply write ``This contract is worth \Rs 20,000,'' etc.
>>  
> Unfortunately, it does not work on LaTeX.  

Of course; it requires XeLaTeX as I said; fontspec itself does not work with LaTeX.

Regards,

Shrisha Rao

> Thanks.
> 
> Kannan




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